====== Fast Grants ======

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**Fast Grants** is an American charity created to provide rapid grants for research related to [[COVID-19]].

It was administered through [[Emergent Ventures]], a fellowship and grant program from the [[Mercatus Center]] at [[George Mason University]].((Hobson, W. (2020, April 29). //Scientists wait months for coronavirus research grants. This economist is trying to fix that.// Washington Post. http://archive.today/2020.04.30-192113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/scientists-wait-months-for-coronavirus-research-grants-this-economist-is-trying-to-fix-that/2020/04/29/b5c8a3e0-896e-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html)) ((//Home.// Fast Grants. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.12.23-005332/https://fastgrants.org/))

===== History =====

Fast Grants was founded in early April 2020 by [[George Mason University]] professor [[Tyler Cohen]], [[Stripe]] co-founder [[Patrick Collison]], and [[University of California Berkeley]] bioengineer [[Patrick Hsu]].((Hobson, W. (2020, April 29). //Scientists wait months for coronavirus research grants. This economist is trying to fix that.// Washington Post. http://archive.today/2020.04.30-192113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/scientists-wait-months-for-coronavirus-research-grants-this-economist-is-trying-to-fix-that/2020/04/29/b5c8a3e0-896e-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html)) The program received 4,000 applications in its first week,((Else, H. (2021). //COVID “Fast Grants” sped up pandemic science.// Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02111-7)) and in less than a month, had "awarded $18 million to more than 100 researchers working on projects including several potential [[COVID-19 vaccines|vaccines]] and treatments for COVID-19."

===== Organization =====

==== Personnel ====

^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Notes  ^
| [[Tyler Cohen]]  | Co-founder  | [[George Mason University]]  |
| [[Patrick Collison]]  | Co-founder  | [[Stripe]]  |
| [[Patrick Hsu]]  | Co-founder  | [[University of California Berkeley]]  |

==== Donors ====

Donors to Fast Grants include:((Hobson, W. (2020, April 29). //Scientists wait months for coronavirus research grants. This economist is trying to fix that.// Washington Post. http://archive.today/2020.04.30-192113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/scientists-wait-months-for-coronavirus-research-grants-this-economist-is-trying-to-fix-that/2020/04/29/b5c8a3e0-896e-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html)) ((//Home.// Fast Grants. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.12.23-005332/https://fastgrants.org/))

<WRAP column col4>
  * [[Arnold Ventures]] 
  * [[Audacious Project]]
  * [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]]
  * [[John Collison]]
  * [[Patrick Collison]]
  * [[Crankstart]]
  * [[Jack Dorsey]]
  * [[Kim Farquhar]]
  * [[Scott Farquhar]]
  * [[Paul Graham]]
  * [[Reid Hoffman]]
  * [[Tobias Lütke]]
  * [[Fiona McKean]]
  * [[Julia Milner]]
  * [[Yuri Milner]]
  * [[Elon Musk]]
  * [[Chris Sacca]]
  * [[Crystal Sacca]]
  * [[Schmidt Futures]]
</WRAP>

===== Activities =====

==== Recipients ====

Recipients of grant funding from Fast Grants include:((//Home.// Fast Grants. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.12.23-005332/https://fastgrants.org/))

^ Name  ^ Affiliation  ^ Project  ^
| -  | [[Addgene]]  | For continuing to share critical reagents with researchers at minimal cost during the [[Covid-19 pandemic]].  |
| [[Patricia Aguilar]]  | [[University of Texas]]  | For modeling age-dependent susceptibility to [[SARS-CoV-2]] infection in 3D human lung organoids.  |
| [[Hector Aguilar-Carreno]]  | [[Cornell University]]  | To use a novel viral membrane inhibitor to produce a [[covid-19_vaccines|SARS-CoV-2 vaccine]]  |
| [[Wataru Akahata]]  | [[Kyoto University]]  | For the development of a Covid-19 vaccine specificially targeted to the receptor-binding domain of the viral S protein using expertise gained during successful development of anti-[[malaria]] and anti-[[chikungunya]] vaccines.  |
| [[James Antaki]]  | [[Cornell University]]  | For the collaborative effort with [[medical_technology_companies:Accel Diagnostics]] to develop a point of care serological test for rapid quantification of antibody titer to monitor disease progression and strength of immune response.  |
| [[Susan Athey]]  | [[Stanford University]]  | For retrospective analyses designed to assess the benefit of off-label drug use, in order to help prioritize and guide subsequent randomized clinical trials.  |
| [[Michael Barry]]  | [[Mayo Clinic]]  | For the development of a single-cycle adenovirus vaccine and viral decoy against SARS-CoV-2.  |
| [[Mark Bathe]]  | [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT)  | For a collaborative effort with the Lingwood and Schmidt labs combining vaccine immunology and nanotechnology expertise to rapidly test and characterize COVID-19 vaccine candidates in high-throughput.  |
| [[John Bell]]  | [[Ottawa Hospital Research Institute]] (OHRI)  | To create multiple vaccines for COVID-19 using novel strategies for delivering coronavirus proteins directly to the critical cells required to generate an effective immune response.  |
| [[Carolyn Bertozzi]]  | [[Stanford University]]  | For a collaboration of Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, Dr. Catherine Blish and Dr. [[Marie Hollenhorst]] to identify minimally invasive predictive biomarkers for Covid-19 disease progression to improve scarce resource allocation.  |
| [[Lbachir BenMohamed]]  | [[University of California Irvine]]  | For the development of an asymptomatic multi-epitope COVID-19 vaccine.  |
| [[Catherine Blish]]  | [[Stanford University]]  | To determine best practices for N95 mask decontamination that will sufficiently inactivate virus and allow mask reuse in a clinical setting  |
| [[Jeff Biernaskie]]  | [[University of Calgary]]  | To study the immune basis of COVID-19 related [[acute respiratory distress syndrome]] (ARDs) via longitudinal study of patients undergoing placebo and convalescent plasma treatment in order to inform evidence-based repurposing of targeted immunotherapies to improve outcomes for critically-ill patients affected by COVID-19.  |
| [[Pamela Bjorkman]]  | [[California Institute of Technology]]  | For electron tomography imaging of SARS-CoV-2 virions trapped in the act of fusion by novel fusion inhibitors  |
| [[Jim Boonyaratanakornkit]]  | [[Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center]]  | To probe the human B cell repertoire for SARS-CoV-2-protective B cells from pre-immune individuals in order to guide vaccine and monoclonal antibody design against COVID-19.  |
| [[Gillian Booth]]  | [[University of Toronto]]  | To accelerate the CONNECT study (COVID-19 and diabetes: Clinical Outcomes and Navigated NEtwork Care Today) to define the relationship between diabetes and adverse COVID-19 outcomes and improve care for individuals with diabetes.  |
| [[Stephen Brohawn]]  | [[University of California Berkeley]]  | To develop novel COVID-19 therapeutics that target coronavirus ion channels in collaboration with the Bautista and Adesnik labs.  |
| [[James Brian Byrd]]  | [[University of Michigan Medical School]]  | To support a randomized, controlled clinical trial testing whether continuation, or discontinuation of two common types of blood pressure medication leads to better outcomes in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.  |
| [[Ann Chahroudi]]  | [[Emory University School of Medicine]]  | To investigate cross-reactive, cross-neutralizing, and antibody-dependent enhancing (ADE) antibodies of circulating endemic coronaviruses.  |
| [[Amy Chung]]  | [[University of Melbourne]]  |
| [[Susan Daniel]]  | [[Cornell University]]  |
| [[Brandon DeKosky]]  | [[University of Kansas]]  |
| [[Shokrollah Elahi]]  | [[University of Alberta]]  |
| [[John Eikelboom]]  | [[McMaster University]]  |
| [[Barbara Engelhardt]]  | [[Princeton University]]  |
| [[Joaquin Espinosa]]  | [[University of Colorado]]  |
| [[Laura Esserman]]  | [[University of San Francisco]]  |
| [[Tracy Fisher]]  | [[Tulane University]]  |
| [[Steven Marc Friedman]]  | [[University Health Network]] (UHN), [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Judith Frydman]]  | [[Stanford University]]  |
| [[Patrick Giguère]]  | [[University of Ottawa]]  |
| [[Amy Gladfelter]]  | [[University of North Carolina]]  |
| [[Douglas Goetz]]  | [[Ohio University]]  |
| [[Anne Goldfeld]]  | [[Boston Children's Hospital]]  |
| [[Ewan Goligher]]  | [[University Health Network]] (UHN), [[University of Manitoba]]  |
| [[Brigitte Gomperts]]  | [[University of California Los Angeles]]  |
| [[Lisa Gralinski]]  | [[University of North Carolina]]  |
| [[Nathan Grubaugh]]  | [[Yale School of Public Health]]  |
| [[Jeremy Hirota]]  | [[McMaster University]]  |
| [[Shirley Hsin-Ju Mei]]  | [[Ottawa Hospital Research Institute]]  |
| [[Eva Harris]]  | [[University of California Berkeley]]  |
| [[John Higgins]]  | [[Massachusetts General Hospital]]  |
| [[Krystalyn Hudson]]  | [[Columbia University]]  |
| [[Patrick Hsu]]  | [[University of California Berkeley]]  |
| [[Akiko Iwasaki]]  | [[Yale University]]  |
| [[Smita Iyer]]  | [[University of California Davis]]  |
| [[Benjamin Izar]]  | [[Columbia University]]  |
| [[Peter Jackson]]  | [[Stanford University School of Medicine]]  |
| [[Jingyue Ju]]  | [[Columbia University]]  |
| [[Naftali Kaminski]]  | [[Yale University]]  |
| [[Kevin Kain]]  | [[University Health Network]] (UHN)  |
| [[Yoshihiro Kawaoka]]  | [[University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine]]  |
| [[Michael Kay]]  | [[University of Utah]]  |
| [[Nevan Krogan]]  | [[University of California San Francisco]]  |
| [[Ronald Levy]]  | [[Stanford University]]  |
| [[Michael Lin]]  | [[Stanford University]]  |
| [[Mark Looney]]  | [[University of California San Francisco]]  |
| [[Hiten Madhani]]  | [[University of California San Francisco]]  |
| [[Jonathan Maguire]]  | [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Rajeev Malhotra]]  | [[Massachusetts General Hospital]]  |
| [[Amanda Martinot]]  | [[Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine]]  |
| [[Grant McFadden]]  | [[Arizona State University]]  |
| [[Allison McGeer]]  | [[Sinai Health System]]  |
| [[Roman Melnyk]]  | [[University of Toronto]], [[SickKids]]  |
| [[Miriam Merad]]  | [[Mount Sinai Medical Center]]  |
| [[Edward Mills]]  | [[McMaster University]]  |
| [[Keith Mastov]]  | [[University of California San Francisco]]  |
| [[Elke Muhlberger]]  | [[Boston University]]  |
| [[Anders Näär]]  | [[University of California Berkeley]]  |
| [[Mihai Netea]]  | [[Radboud University Medical Center]]  |
| [[Daniel Nomura]]  | [[University of California Berkeley]]  |
| [[Paul Norman]]  | [[University of Colorado]]  |
| -  | [[Center for Open Science]]  |
| [[Elizabeth Ogburn]]  | [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]]  |
| [[Melanie Ott]]  | [[University of California San Francisco]]  |
| [[Chul Park]]  | [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Jerry Pelletier]]  | [[McGill University]]  |
| [[Bradley Pentelute]]  | [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT)  |
| [[Marion Pepper]]  | [[University of Washington]]  |
| [[Nikolai Petrovsky]]  | [[Flinders University]]  |
| [[Rosalind Picard]]  | [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT)  |
| [[Dylan Pillai]]  | [[University of Calgary]]  |
| [[Hidde Ploegh]]  | [[Harvard University]]  |
| [[Angela Rasmussen]]  | [[Columbia University]]  |
| [[Brian Raught]]  | [[University Health Network]]  |
| [[Jeffrey Rawetch]]  | [[Rockefeller University]]  |
| [[Charles Rice]]  | [[Rockefeller University]]  |
| [[Davide Robbiani]]  | [[Rockefeller University]]  |
| [[Erica Ollmann Saphire]]  | [[La Jolla Institute for Immunology]]  |
| [[Ansuman Satpathy]]  | [[Stanford University]]  |
| [[Jacqueline Saw]]  | [[Vancouver General Hospital]] (VGH)  |
| [[Julia Schaletzky]]  | [[University of California Berkeley]]  |
| [[Katherine Seley-Radtke]]  | [[University of Maryland]]  |
| [[Timothy Sheahan]]  | [[University of North Carolina]]  |
| [[Sachdev Sidhu]]  | [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Matthew Spitzer]]  | [[University of California San Francisco]]  |
| [[Sarah Stanley]]  | [[University of California Berkeley]]  |
| [[Erec Stebbins]]  | [[German Cancer Research Center]]  |
| [[Alice Ting]]  | [[Stanford University]]  |
| [[Alain Townsend]]  | [[University of Oxford]]  |
| [[David Veesler]]  | [[University of Washington]]  |
| [[Kliment Verba]]  | [[University of California San Francisco]]  |
| [[Bert Vogelstein]]  | [[Johns Hopkins University]]  |
| [[Arthur Wallace]]  | [[University of California San Francisco]], [[San Francisco VA Medical Center]]  |
| [[Bruce Wang]]  | [[University of California San Francisco]]  |
| [[Taia Wang]]  | [[Stanford University]]  |
| [[Tania Watts]]  | [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Kipp Weiskopf]]  | [[Whitehead Institute]]  |
| [[Craig Wilen]]  | [[Yale University]]  |
| [[Paul Yager]]  | [[University of Washington]]  |
| [[Michael Yin]]  | [[Columbia University]]  |
| [[Qian Zhang]]  | [[Rockefeller University]]  |

===== External links =====

  * [[https://fastgrants.org/|Website]]
  * [[https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/fast-grants/|White Rose Wiki]]
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Grants|Wikipedia]]